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your opinions on mini split brands

hey folks. at my 9-5 i install a lot of mitsubishi, and i like them a lot, but they have the biggest price tag so they are a bit harder to sell to people (side work).
i've installed fujitsus because they are little bit cheaper, but they seem a lot cheaper in quality (imho).

i have some people ask me about brands like klimaire, comfortaire, lg, grunaire...
anyone install/service these brands of mini splits?

yeah when i first installed fujitsu i didnt know about the fittings and had to come back with them in order to finish..... of course the job was far away in queens!!! i bought three so i can pump the 3 evaps down at once!

but i get alot of estimates for these splits because of the amount of atticless brownstone around the city and people dont want to make penetrations in their roof for supplies/returns.. so i can agree that they are here to stay

...and ive swaped out compressors on mitsubishis and its a bit tighter.. so i can see why one would not prefer to service them

I installed 60 LG mini splits in an apartment building. In the past 2 years since the install, We've replaced 2 maybe 3 boards and 5 temperature sensors. I really don't know if that's a good or bad failure rate because there's no other job we've done that compares.

I've only dealt with Mitsubishi and fujitsu. Have had quite a few problems with the fujitsues and parts are often slow to ship for them. Nothing but good to say about the Mits though other than needing the adapters.